Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Pleasures of Hitch

Christopher Caldwell, New York Post
There is an odd thing about Christopher Hitchens. Having entered journalism as a Trotskyist in 1970s Britain (which he memorably described as "Weimar without the sex"), he has spent the last decade as a leading advocate of bombing Afghanistan "back out of the Stone Age." Yet this ideological change has had little effect on the pleasures of reading him.One would -- at least I would -- as happily read something he wrote about Nicosia in 1975 as something he wrote about Barack Obama this morning. The moving articles that Hitchens has written since being diagnosed with...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/11/16/the_pleasures_of_hitch_245854.html

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